Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-13
DICTATOR CLARK,

Gainesville Register, pro-: Hon.
George Clark says he sis in favor of toll
erslce for the rank end file of Democrats
who thoyghtlessly followed off this pro-
hibition craze, and will oppose their pro-
scription. For the fanatical leaders well
have no truce" The Register, and those
Democrats that stood with it in the re-
cent contest, care not straw for the
opinion Of Judge Clark or any other mar-
jack of the anti-prohibitlon following.
Judge Clark is simply mamie could
not be more, we do not hold him less
and when he goes to making threats of
what the Democracy will or will not
do, he shows lack of thet discre-
ton which has been with him q
more striking Characteristic than vGlor.
Judge Clark will find that the man who
leads the Democratic party in the state
OF Texas will not have so blind follow
ing IS he who led the anti prohibition
hosts TO victory. He Will fad large num-
Der Of anti-prohibition Democrats who
while claiming the largest possible share
of freedom CT opinion and of expression
and OF sction-persona liberty, If you
please-for themselves, are willing to &C
cord just as much to their fellows. He
will find large number Of Democrats
who voted against the pro-
hibition amendment on the
ground of eXpedienCy alone, and
not because they believed it IN Demo GRAFT
ic. He will find many anti-pr0hibitlon
Democrats who, while they believe prohi-
bition to be un-DemoCratic, are yet will
ing to allow every other Democrat to
decide the question OF its Democracy for
himself. If it is fight that Judge Clark
wants he can get it, and that without
trouble. The prohibition Democrats will
need but one invitation to the fray. They
believe that man may vote for prohibit
ton ard still be Democrat, and they
further believe that majority Of the
Democrats in Texas hold the same view,
and that II the matter is pressed at the
primaries and in the state convention the
Democracy will so decide. The Register
wants to see this question settled, and
that in place where Newcomb and Coch-
ran and DEGREES, with their following of
colored and foreign Republicans, can have
no voice. The place is Democratic
convention, commissioned by primaries
where only Democrats are allowed to
vote, and where the Democracy of pro-
hibition Is made an issue. The Register
wants to see this done, because it is a
Democratic paper and desires to promul-
gate nothing but Democratic doctrine.
And when the line of truth shall be
thus blazed out, the Register will be
found pursuing it. If prohibition is
Democratic, let it be 50 declared, that
anti-prohibition Democrats may know
the truth. If it is not Democratic, let it
be so declared, that prohibition Demo
Gratis may be made to see the error of
their ways. But until the great Demo
cratic party shall set it's seal of condem-
nation upon it neither George Clark nor
Arch Cochran nor Barney Gibbs nor
Melvin Wade shall, unrebuked, arrogate
to himself the power to declare who is
or who is not Democrat. Neither
ore nor all of them can unmake Demo-
crat any more than either one or all can
make Democrat. The issue should be
met. Judge Clark has thrown down the
gauntlet, and the Prohibition Democrats
should not hesitate to pick it up. And to
the boldest knight, the bravest gentleman,
the most courageous soldier OF them all
the Register has but this to say: tLead
on! and will set this foot of mine as fsr
as who goes farthest."